stevew20

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by stevew20 8y ago
I personally believe that facial recognition software will eventually be employed by law enforcement no matter what we do; I also believe that this is a bad thing and lies on the path to a controlling and pervasive police state. However, th
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by stevew20 8y ago
Lol
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by stevew20 8y ago
But the trees man... My god, think of the trees
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by stevew20 8y ago
Police have a poor history in the US of exercising trigger discipline. A fair amount of this is due to overly aggressive training that is designed to keep the officers as safe as possible, sacrificing safety of anyone perceived as a threat
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by stevew20 8y ago
This is why I support physical violence! If more people were to also follow this mantra, it would immunize all of us from assholes who seek to ruin our lives on the way to fame.
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by stevew20 8y ago
Jesus, this is the kinda shallow meaning business jargon BS that make ML SO HARD to explain to the average person.
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by stevew20 8y ago
How many years did it take for cars to go from beta to wide spread use? It would be nice if it would happen faster, we could cut the number of car accidents in half, car related fatalities by a quarter, and zero speeding tickets...
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by stevew20 8y ago
Less accountable governments? You mean governments that are significantly less armed than their populace? Only way I know to keep a government accountable...
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by stevew20 8y ago
This post is 100% spot on. Ask the folks at Palantir under what conditions a person stops being identified as a 'target' in their database... Hint: everything you do, on a daily basis, can be construed as incriminating. Source: Wo
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by stevew20 8y ago
Though, the NSA did lose the keys to their van full of fun toys to the Shadow Brokers just a couple years ago. In my mind that adds 'incompetent' right there next to 'evil/criminal' on the list of reasons they are u
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by stevew20 8y ago
The NSA continues to work against the US national interest by illegally spying on its entire populace, so... Maybe let's not start throwing rocks over glass houses, ya know?
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by stevew20 8y ago
Optimized pessimist. You are part of the majority!
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by stevew20 8y ago
Ooooo, I hope the next federal law changes our countries name from "The United States of America" to "Russia"! P.S. please let's all stop supporting our government making more laws. They are shit at it, and we shoul
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by stevew20 8y ago
If the crash was bad enough to eject someone, then the Tesla catching fire is sad, but probably not why these kids died. Driving their powerful car into a concrete wall is what killed them; the make of the car has little to do with it. This
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by stevew20 8y ago
As a US citizen, and a former service member, and I can confirm that most independent businesses and corporations are more trustworthy than the US government.
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by stevew20 8y ago
Each officer and official involved in this should face prison, as would any common burgler who holds a family at gunpoint in their own home.
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by stevew20 9y ago
I vote that ABC News has it's journalism license revoked! All in favor?
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by stevew20 9y ago
It seems a very likely strategy for Comey (based on past instances of him lying under oath) to have tasked the unit with breaking into the phone, then simultaneously pushing on Apple to unlock it. In this scenario, all Comey had to do was N
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by stevew20 9y ago
Maybe they fired all the good investigators and hired data analysts, and are having serious buyers remorse!
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by stevew20 9y ago
Strange, given the numerous anti-cryptography articles they've published...
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by stevew20 9y ago
Don't use AMP... Aweful for everyone involved, except Google.
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by stevew20 9y ago
I like that some of these employee's think they work for a company that is not evil.
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by stevew20 9y ago
If art contributes as much as the rest to the well-being and advancement of mankind, then sure, stick it in there!
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by stevew20 9y ago
I was really hoping I wouldn't need to be the first person to point this out! Thanks Jeff
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by stevew20 9y ago
Uh, just throwing this out there, people gave up all that information voluntarily. I'd blame them, or more likely their parents, for not using better PII heigene. This article is sensationalist bullshit though... Really, shame on you,
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by stevew20 9y ago
Ouch.
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by stevew20 9y ago
See relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1958/ I believe that most ML applications are fool-able by attacks of the same type as would fool a human doing the same task as the ML. The really big difference is the scale of att
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by stevew20 9y ago
Pitbull, surprisingly enough, seems to be quite the business person. If you'd like evidence of this, and you, like me, think his music is aweful and his voice grating, take a look at how well he's done. He is more of an entertaine
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by stevew20 9y ago
To those who think this could be a good idea: do some research on AMP, then reevaluate your opinion. To my mind, AMP is a content reassociation tool, not a content distribution speedup tool. It succeeds in both, was designed as the former,
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by stevew20 9y ago
This type of behavior is actually extremely commonplace. These are the ones that were sloppy enough to get caught...

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